Key highlights:
- Former Division I women’s basketball coach Kyron Stokes now helps students and early career talent find their path at Williams.
- He recruits for technical roles, internships and operations technician opportunities that support Williams’ growing workforce needs.
- His own unconventional career journey shapes how he encourages students to keep learning, adapting and taking the next right step.
Kyron Stokes knows what it means to keep going.
He changed his college major five times. He spent more than a decade coaching Division 1 women’s basketball at Oral Roberts University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business marketing and an MBA. He worked in mortgages. He taught himself to code. Then he spent almost a year searching for the right role at Williams.
“300 days. That’s how long it took me to get here,” said Stokes, who recruits for technical roles and early career internships. “And today I can look around and say: I am exactly where I’m supposed to be.”
That mindset now shapes his work at Williams, where he helps recruit high school and university interns, technical school students and early career talent for operations technician and Power Innovation roles. For Stokes, the job is bigger than filling openings. It is about helping people find a future.
“My path is unconventional,” he said. “But it’s really just doing the next right thing.”
Leaving coaching was tough, but Stokes wanted more time with his family. What followed was a lesson in adaptability, and he said none of it was wasted.
“Everything that I did prior to being here has transferred over, like the skill sets,” he said.
Building a pipeline for what’s next
Today, he is especially focused on building pipelines for operations technician roles, where students can move from technical training into hands-on careers that support Williams’ day-to-day operations, like these Power Innovation roles.
In many cases, internships are the first step. They give students a way to gain experience now and move into operations and power-focused roles as those needs grow.
“I love the technical side. It is right up my alley,” he said. “The stories are so different.”
Those stories matter to Stokes because he sees recruiting as both a business priority and a human one. The students he meets are not just future hires. They are future teammates, operators and leaders.
“What I do matters because we are building the workforce of tomorrow,” he said.
Advice for students charting their path at Williams
For students considering what comes next, his message is simple: Do not count yourself out.
“You have the ability to grow. You have the ability to move into different roles,” he said. “If you want to go in and put work in, go ahead and do it.”
Ready to build your future at Williams? Explore opportunities on our Careers site.
Stokes’ personal life is also devoted to helping the next generation. The father of four is involved in youth sports and volunteers at Tulsa Girls’ Home and Project Orphans. Both nonprofits are led by his wife Brittany Stokes with the goal of restoring hope and opportunity for vulnerable children and young women locally and globally.